I don’t know, but if he is, does he get to complain? Or does the fact that he’s able to scrape by mean that he just has to take it if someone is screwing out of, say, a billion dollars a year? Kinda sucks for Bill Gates, but I guess that’s the world HypnoToad wants to live in.

I don’t know, but if he is, does he get to complain? Or does the fact that he’s able to scrape by mean that he just has to take it if someone is screwing out of, say, a billion dollars a year? Kinda sucks for Bill Gates, but I guess that’s the world HypnoToad wants to live in.

I will never get this attitude. Do you say the same thing about Bill Gates (who makes $3.5MM in something like two hours)? Are you in favor of a 100% tax rate for all earnings over $3.5MM?

Pretty sure no one’s claiming that. The claim is that he’s screwed here because he’s now likely to end up making less than $15MM over the remainder of his career, on account of a quirk of the CBA. Whether you think that amounts to him being screwed over depends on whether you think he’s worth $15MM over the course of…

Good point, thanks. Guess I’m not quite ready for that GM job yet.

But aren’t Beverley and Williams useful players? Wouldn’t another team have happily taken those players off Houston’s hands without Houston giving up a pick too?

I’m missing something. If Paul was willing to sign with Houston, why did they agree to trade for him instead?

If Bell doesn’t sign the tender, at what point is he free to sign with another team? Not until after the season?

I’m not selling dope. I’m not kidnapping people or robbing people. I’m not selling my autographs for money.

You can also make guac with lime juice and the pits still in it, and then store it in an airtight container and then either a) scrape the brown shit off the top or a) mix the brown parts back into the green parts.

Setting aside that the triangle doesn’t seem to work anymore, is there any chance that Porzingis and Hernangomez are at least well suited to it? Or are they going to end up in the triangle nyay bucket and make this all even worse.

Isn’t the obvious solution to just have the problem show up before she’s woken up? And then she’s like a scientist or something and he has no choice? But I’d guess everyone involved in this just never noticed the creepiness, because idiots.

I think it’s all but certainly something he does intentionally/could avoid if he wanted to, but isn’t the more plausible justification that he needs to throw his leg out to maintain balance, rather than that it’s part of his jumping/lunging motion? 

So coaches, in an effort to squeeze every last bit of winning out of their team, will basically live in their office to get that extra few minutes of time to break down film and will forbid players from having much of a life outside football lest that be a distraction, but nevertheless willingly start the shitty…

To be fair to the plaintiffs, rejecting a settlement offer doesn’t mean they aren’t willing to settle. They obviously thought they had more leverage than they actually did (which is why they continued to pursue the claim in the first place), so it’s not surprising or especially informative that they rejected what I’m…

and I would have supported them had they not tried to bilk money from **the families of shooting victims* but just the idea of what they did left me feeling ill.

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Your examples of good deals all hint at the problem with ever really addressing the problem. Owners get cushy deals because they can credibly threaten to move elsewhere if they don’t and cities decide they’d rather pony up than risk losing the team. Those threats aren’t as credible in LA or Green Bay (or NYC per Pink…

So what’s the enforcement mechanism here? If the players refuse to take the field, they won’t get paid, sure, but does anything else happen to them?

Would you feel better if the criminal just rammed him with his car? Stabbed him? Poisoned him? Dropped a safe on his head?